Nuro, a leading company in autonomous vehicle technology, has announced that it will license its autonomous driving system, Nuro Driver, to car manufacturers and mobility providers. This decision marks a significant milestone in the adoption of autonomous technology in the transportation industry.
A proven and safe system, Nuro Driver, built on the safety architecture of NVIDIA DRIVE and DriveOS, has demonstrated its reliability and safety in real-world conditions. Nuro’s fleet of research and development vehicles has completed over 1 million autonomous miles without incidents caused by system failures.
Jiajun Zhu, co-founder and CEO of Nuro, stated: “It’s not a question of if level 4 autonomy will become widespread, but a matter of when. We believe that Nuro is positioned to be a significant contributor in this autonomous future where the mobility of people and goods flows freely, representing a significant increase in the quality of life for all.”
Nuro announced in March, during the GTC event, that Nuro Driver is being built on NVIDIA DRIVE Thor, running on the NVIDIA DriveOS operating system for AI-defined secure autonomous vehicles.
Rishi Dhall, NVIDIA’s vice president of automotive, explained: “Built with NVIDIA’s end-to-end AV security architecture, Nuro Driver can integrate sensor processing and other critical safety capabilities, along with AI-driven autonomy, into a single centralized computing system.”
The licensing model of Nuro will provide car manufacturers and mobility companies with access to a commercially independent and road-tested platform, which can accelerate their development and deployment times for autonomous vehicles.
Nuro recently received approval from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test its driverless vehicles based on Nuro Driver in four cities in the San Francisco Bay Area: Los Altos, Menlo Park, Mountain View, and Palo Alto. The DMV permit allows Nuro vehicles to operate at any time of day, as well as in light rain and light to moderate fog.
In addition to testing in California, Nuro is also conducting commercial trials and delivery services in Houston, Texas. Source: Nvidia.